Chapter 107

"What's wrong with you?" Ning Zhuo asked with a look of "noticing that the atmosphere seems wrong" and confusion.

Zheng Jian laughed dryly: "Little Brother Ning Zhuo thinks things are a bit simple."

Zhou Zhu nodded: "That's right."

Ning Xiaohui sneered: "That Lava Immortal Palace is one of the former palaces of the Three Sects' Shangren, which is no small matter. The Three Sects' Shangren are Void Refinement powerhouses, leaving behind inheritance tests, how can the difficulty be easy?"

"The fighting spirit is commendable, but it is indeed a frog in the well, looking down on people."

"Don't say that in the future."

Ning Zhuo said "ah", and nodded hurriedly: "Oh, oh."

He had been observing words and expressions.

The reason he said this was to provoke Zheng Jian and Zhou Zhu, and to probe the subsequent action plans of the Zhou and Zheng families.

He didn't expect that his reminder would bring up the painful memories of the past again, giving Zheng Jian and Zhou Zhu a painful blow.

Zheng Jian smiled bitterly: "The difficulty of the Three Sects' Shangren's test is really too high. I'm not afraid of Ning Zhuo brother laughing at me, we haven't even passed the first level."

"Ah?" Ning Zhuo widened his eyes, with a look of great surprise.

Zheng Jian is the oldest among everyone present. Plus, his nature is relatively straightforward, so he chose to announce his unbearable results frankly, without hiding it.

In fact, Ning Zhuo will definitely enter the Immortal Palace next, and will definitely find out, so there is no need to hide it from him.

"What exactly is the first level that can stump Brother Zheng Jian and Brother Zhou Zhu?" Ning Zhuo couldn't help but ask.

Ning Xiaohui couldn't help but let out a light laugh, thinking: "Zheng Jian's words are still better, in fact, they haven't even seen the full picture of the first level."

She didn't enter the Immortal Palace, not even once.

On the one hand, she hasn't been at the third layer peak for long, and on the other hand, she has always been protected by talismans and not soul-extracted.

Because the Ning family learned intelligence from the other two families and determined that even if Ning Xiaohui entered the palace, she couldn't exert anything, so she just kept her state and waited for the opportunity.

Because of these, Ning Xiaohui didn't taste failure and had no empathy for Zheng Jian and Zhou Zhu.

Seeing that Ning Zhuo was still asking, Zhou Zeshen hurriedly clapped his hands and interrupted his words: "Everyone, eating and drinking is a bit boring."

"My Zhou family recently recruited a mechanical cultivator named Chu Xiyao, who has quite a bit of talent."

"Brother Zheng, this time at the banquet, Chu Xiyao also followed, and is currently waiting in the main hall."

"Why not let her come up and set up a game board for everyone to entertain?"

Zheng Jian looked at Zhou Zeshen deeply and nodded: "Since Brother Zhou has this heart, I naturally welcome it. Please ask that great talent to come up."

After a while.

Chu Xiyao opened the door and entered, bowing to everyone present.

She is a female cultivator, with a middle-to-upper appearance and an attractive temperament. Her eyebrows drooped, her expression was mournful, especially her waist was very, very thin, and her posture was like a weak willow in the wind, which was very pitiful.

She is clearly Foundation Establishment, but she put on a very low posture to the Qi Refining stage cultivators present.

The cultivation world respects the strong.

But this scene is not strange.

On the one hand, the combat power gap between Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining is not particularly large, and there are many situations that can be crossed.

On the other hand, this is the righteous path, not the demonic path of jungle slaughter.

A large part of Chu Xiyao's respect is for the talent of Zheng Jian and others.

Cultivators have spiritual roots and can cultivate.

In ancient times, those with spiritual roots were very rare, so having spiritual roots alone was noble enough.

With the development of the times, the number of cultivators is increasing, and they began to pursue excellent spiritual roots.

Developing to today, spiritual energy is becoming more and more intense. For cultivators, spiritual roots are nothing, and talent is worthy of praise.

Chu Xiyao only has Immortal Roots and no talent. In time, her cultivation will be easily caught up by Zheng Jian and others.

Therefore, her respect is essentially still respecting the strong.

It's just that those present will become strong in the future.

This is the same as some sects obtaining cultivation seeds with excellent talent, which are immediately accepted as personal disciples by the high-level sect. Even if they are only Qi Refining stage, they have the status of an elder and are treated with courtesy by the sect.

Ning Xiaohui was curious: "I have heard of Senior Chu's reputation early on. My Ning family also wanted to use a lot of money to hire the senior."

"The senior refused my family at that time because she didn't like being restrained and liked to be free."

"The junior is quite curious, I don't know why the senior changed her mind and defected to the Zhou family?"

Chu Xiyao sighed: "Isn't it because of that Zhu Xuanji?"

Originally, Chu Xiyao herself was Foundation Establishment and specialized in mechanical arts, reaching the Immortal Palace standard, and could enter the Immortal Palace to compete for inheritance rights.

She did enter the Immortal Palace, was injured, and gained benefits.

Zhu Xuanji didn't block the Shadow Demon Cultivator at the Fire Persimmon Festival. Although the clues in his hand didn't break, Zhu Xuanji believed that these might be traps deliberately left for him by the real culprit.

Zhu Xuanji listed a list of suspects from the four major forces of Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

He started from the first person on this list and verified them one by one.

Li Leifeng was the first person he verified.

Later, Zhao Die was beheaded by Zhu Xuanji because he resisted.

Chu Xiyao knew very well that she must also be on this list, and she didn't want to leave Fire Persimmon Immortal City, and wanted to wait for the opportunity to enter the Immortal Palace.

So, after thinking about it, she chose the Zhou family as a temporary object to defect to.

Why do this?

She mainly considered two points.

The first point, it definitely couldn't be the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the South Bean Dynasty and is a subordinate. Chu Xiyao joined it, and there was even less reason to resist Zhu Xuanji's severe investigation.

The second point, the conditions of the three major families are looser and far more tempting than the City Lord's Mansion. Even if Zhu Xuanji came to trouble her, the three major families could not resist head-on, but they could also maintain it to a certain extent. At worst, the three major families could secretly release news and let Chu Xiyao escape by herself.

The three major families are rooted in Fire Persimmon Immortal City and attach great importance to maintaining family reputation.

After comprehensive consideration, Chu Xiyao chose the strongest Zhou family among the three major families.

Ning Zhuo's eyes flashed slightly.

He stood out and participated in the small banquet, and got the first valuable intelligence tonight.

"Because of Zhu Xuanji's actions, have the cultivators started to hold together?"

"Some cultivators have relatively clean backgrounds and will likely choose to rely on the four major forces. But there must also be some demon cultivators who don't want to defect. They either go far away, or hold together, and there are almost no fools who continue to act alone."

"Zhu Xuanji checked the suspicious personnel one by one, I don't know if my mother is on this list?"

Ning Zhuo felt the pressure again.

Chu Xiyao patted her storage bag and released a mechanical wooden box.

The wooden box was square, and after it fell to the ground, it was quickly dismantled to gradually build a rectangular maze chessboard.

Ning Zhuo saw at a glance that this chessboard imitated the second room.

Although Zhou Zhu and Zheng Jian both folded at the heavy hammer at the door, they would also glimpse the appearance and layout of the second room when opening the door.

After dying many times, they could also collect some valuable intelligence.

After Chu Xiyao laid out the maze chessboard, she took out the chess pieces and distributed them to Zheng Jian and others.

The chess piece is also a small mechanism, like a wheel, with spokes and an axis.

"Isn't this a reduced version of a wheel?" Zheng Jian took the chess piece, observed it, and said.

Chu Xiyao nodded: "Yes, this is a wheel."

A wheel is a mechanical toy that is often loved by child cultivators.

Children will inject their very pitiful bit of magic power into the wheel, and then let the wheel start on its own. Children compare whose wheel rolls farther.

The reason it is called a wheel is because the cultivator who invented it had low strength and basically was a one-round tour in various competitions and competitions held by families, sects, and countries.

Chu Xiyao continued: "But the wheel I transformed can not only absorb magic power, but also store a certain amount of spiritual sense."

"What we need to do is to inject magic power and spiritual sense, put the chess pieces into the maze chessboard, and see whose wheel tour can go the farthest."

Zheng Jian had strong execution. As soon as Chu Xiyao finished speaking, he threw the chess piece in.

His wheel moved rapidly in the maze chessboard, turned many times in the middle, and finally stopped after hitting the horizontal obstacle.

"A bit interesting." Zheng Jian's eyes were bright, and he concluded: "Magic power and spiritual sense must be abundant, and they must cooperate with each other, so every step of the calculation must be precise. Otherwise, once the cooperation goes wrong, this tiny mistake will accumulate rapidly, amplify, and drag each other down, until defeat."

Chu Xiyao smiled softly and immediately complimented Zheng Jian for his sharp eyes and hitting the nail on the head.

After Zheng Jian, Zhou Zeshen, Zhou Zhu, and Ning Xiaohui threw them one after another.

Zhou Zhu walked the shortest, and although Zhou Zeshen's cultivation was weaker, he walked the longest distance.

Ning Xiaohui's wheel had clever steps and a bit of elegance, and the distance walked was second only to Zhou Zeshen.

"It's Brother Ning Zhuo's turn." Zhou Zeshen smiled.

For a time, many eyes were cast on Ning Zhuo.

Zhou Zeshen said it was entertainment, but it was more essentially a probe. In the cultivation world, what has always been valued is individual elites.

Undoubtedly, after the joint test, if there are no accidents, the internal competition of the three families will depend on the people attending the banquet.

Others are relatively familiar with each other, only Ning Zhuo emerged suddenly, although intelligence was collected, it was the most unfamiliar.

For the gaze of everyone, Ning Zhuo seemed to be unaware, and after throwing the chess piece, his eyes followed, full of nervousness.

The chess piece wheel turned constantly in various obstacles, and the speed of moving forward was not fast at all. It was not as clever as Ning Xiaohui's, nor as precise as Zhou Zeshen's, but it walked to the forefront, reaching a record that everyone had never reached before.

"How could this be?" Zhou Zhu was stunned.

Zheng Jian and Zhou Zeshen both looked at Ning Zhuo.

Even Ning Xiaohui showed surprise and looked at Ning Zhuo again.

Chu Xiyao's beautiful eyes were bright: "It's spiritual sense."

"This little Ning family gentleman's spiritual sense is very abundant, different from Qi Refining cultivators."

"Therefore, commanding the wheel chess piece to move forward can maintain a longer time."

"Combined with the minimum consumption of magic power, the cooperation time of spiritual sense and magic power was stretched as much as possible, achieving the best results."

Ning Zhuo scratched his head: "It seems to be the case, my spiritual sense seems to be more abundant than my peers."

"Could it be... Talent!?" In an instant, the same question flashed through the minds of everyone in the field.